Curtain fitting means



)ec. 15, 1931. F. MENELEY CURTAIN FITTING MEANS Filed June 10, 1950zwmrok fired 0Z3, el'hizezgy Z5 {M Patented Dec. 15, 1931 UNIT ED STATESrm .L. .nnnnnny, or GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA CURTAIN FITTING Applicationfiled June 10,

This invention relates to improved means for hangingand' supportingflexible material suchas, curtains, draperies, and the like andrendering them conveniently adjustable along, a supporting member suchas bars, rods or the like.

An object of; the invention is to provide an improved clip or hanger foruse in conjunctianwiththe curtain and its supporting bar, said hangerbeing, so constructed as to be readily slidable along the. bar but beingeffectiaely safeguarded against accidental displacement therefrom,

Another object. of. he invention is to provide a. curtain clip whereonis mounted in! an. improved manner, an, antifi-iction roller which isadapted tov travel smoothly along. the supporting member .and whichsecurely maintained in; a proper op:- erativ erelationto said member.

Another object. of the. invention. is .to pro:- vide. curtainsupporting,means, which in conjunction with other improved features, will include ahaving .a novel hem. along its upper edgeso formed as .to safeguard. thecurtminfrom. wearing or-becoming torn atthe point. or. points where itis engaged by the supporting means- Another object. is tov providesimple, and novel means-for supporting a curtain so that when thecurtain is in drawn position the supporting her and associated partswill be concealedfrom view on. one side of the drawn curtain.

Another object of the invention is to prowide novel'means whereby aflexible curtain may supported by clips or hangers combin'ed withtherail whereon they are mount- (Id-"1m form a very simple, inexpensiveand mi memos for supporting the same inrsuch m warmer that the curtainsupporting elements are-all located: on but one side of the cmtaim. sothat. no hanging equipment will be visiblefrom one side of the curtain.and a Beater, more pleasing appearance of the curtain will thereforeresult.

The invention. includes the parts and combinations of parts moreparticularly hereinafter described and claimed.

A further object is to provide a novel our 1930. Serial No. 460,174.

tain supporting means which may be easily and quickly attached to anddetached from the curtain that it is to support, as well asone which maybe easily and quickly attached to :55

and, detached fromits supporting rail.

A still further object is to providea simple, novel curtain supportingmeans which may be elfectively associated with a curtain toob tain theforegoing objects without sewing or otherwise fixedly securing thecurtain to the m supporting means.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention may appear from theaccompany ing, drawings, the subjoined detail description and theappended claims.v

The invention. is illustrated, by way of example, in conjunction with ashower bath curtain but it is to be understood that its use is by nomeans confined to curtains,- of this character, as it may be adapted to.support any flexible member.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which. illustrate what is atpresent deemed to be a preferred embodiment of the invenportion of thecurtain, a fragment of which is more or less: diagrammaticallyillustrated.

Fig. 3 is a broken side elevation including only afragment of thecurtain and. rail illustrating the relative positions of the parts.

Fig. 4 is a detail plan view of onev of the hangers or clips forsupporting the curtain together with its anti-friction roller.

The curtain '7 may be of a rubber fabric or of any other materialdesired,,being provided along its upper edge with a folded over part ior hem 8 thus producing a pocket 9. The lower edge of the hem 8 isprovided with an upwardly directed terminal portion 11 which underliesthe body portion of the curtain stitches 12 secure the free edge of thehem to the body portion of the curtain.

Spaced along the hem 8, near the lower edge thereof, is a series orplurality of apertures 15 the edge portions of which are reinforced inany desirable manner, as by the eyelets or grommets 16.-

The curtain is shown supported from a tubular rod or bar 20 which isrectangular in cross-section. This bar is preferably mounted on edge asshown in Fig. 2 so that its sides will be vertical,

The curtain 7 is supported from the bar 20 by means of the series ofhangers or clips 25 one of which is illustrated. Each of said hangerscomprises a strip, wire or rod which is bent into the general shape of avertically compressed letter 8, having a supporting loop 26 formed atone side of a middle run 25 of the wire that extends around the rail 20,and at its lower or free end terminates in an inwardly directed finger27 which tends to prevent vertical displacement of the hanger from therail 20 and thereby reduces to a minimum accidental disengagement of thehanger from rail 20.

The other end portion of the hanger is provided with a curtainsupporting loop 30 which provides an upstanding limb 31 that forms thecurtain-engaging portion of the hanger. The loop 30 is adapted to beinserted through an eyelet 16 in such a manner that the weight of thecurtain at such point is supported at the eyelet and the limb 31 entersthe pocket 9 and serves to maintain hem 8 in an upright position toconceal bar or rail 20 when the curtain is drawn. The hangers 25 arepositioned along curtain 7 at any desired intervals so that thelocations of arms 31 will adequately support the curtain.

It will be seen that each clip 25 is formed of a single piece of wireand that at each side of its central run 25 a loop is provided, the openend of which is directed oppositely to its companion loop. The open endof the loop 26 may he slipped over the rail 20 to mount the hanger onthe rail 20 without removing the rail from its supporting members, andthe loop 20 is sufficiently obstructed by the finger 27 to prevent theclip from being lifted oif from or laterally displaced with relation tosaid rail during operation of sliding the curtain along said rail eitherto open or drawn positions.

In mounting or removing my novel hanger on the rail 20 the loop 26 maybe easily sprung. as the same is made from wire, to permit installationor removal of the hanger from rail 20. A wheel or roller 40 is mountedon loop 26 to provide simple means for ease of operation when moving thecurtain suspended by my novel hanger along rail 20.

A portion of the wire loop 26 is of suriicient length to form a bearingshaft for said roller 40, and in order to provide retaining means andcentering means for said roller 40, the wire forming the loop is cut toprovide spaced projections or small lugs or ears 41 which maintain theroller between them and keep the roller in proper position.

In the drawings the curtain 7 is illustrated as mounted for use as ashower-bath curtain in conjunction with a bath tub 45, said tub beinglocated in a corner portion of the bath room A and the curtain rod orbar 20 being positioned to support the curtain along and over the twosides of the tub which are not adjacent to the wall. This arrangement oftub, curtain, and curtain-supporting means is well suited to shower bathequipment because it provides for adjusting the curtain in such a mannerthat the curtain will keep water from splashing onto the floor while ashower bath is being taken. However, it is understood that my novelcurtain-fitting may he used either for curved bars 20 as shown or forstraight bars without bend B or for suspending any desirable materialsuch as, drapes, cretonnes, etc., without departing from the spirit ofmy invention.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I have provided a novelcurtain-fitting in the form of a vertically compressed letter S in whichthe supporting loop extends on all four sides of, and substantiallyenclosing the rectangular supporting bar or rail 20, and in which thecurtain supporting loop extends above the rail 20 so that a curtainsupported thereon will conceal the roller %0 and its un derlyingco-operating parts.

In hanging a curtain upon the supporting bar 20, it will be apparentthat the supporting bar 20 will not have to be removed from itssupporting bearings as the hangers or clips 25 are preferably firstplaced upon the supporting bar 20 by slipping the loop 26 over bar 20and, if necessary, this loop may be easily sprung to accomplishsuchpurpose- Then the curtain, which has been previously formed with thehem 8 and the grommets or eyelets 16, is mounted upon the loop 30 of thehanger 25 by merely slipping the limb 31 of hanger 25 through the eyelet16 so that the limb 31 is received in the pocket 9 of hem 8. To removethe curtain, it will be apparent that one is only required to raise thecurtain off from the limb 81 of supporting loop 30.

The ease of hanging acurtain on my novel hanger and the ease with whichthe same may be removed for laundering purposes will. at once beapparent to those skilled in'the art, as no sewing or other fasteningthan above referred to is required to effectively support a curtain onmy novel hanger so that the head of the curtain will extend above thesupport ing means to conceal the same whenthe cur-- tain is drawn.Furthermore, the curtain, when supported on my hanger25, will hangvertically with respect to its surface with out the head extendingforwardly or rearwardly with respect to the curtain surface.

.naacaaa I claim:

1. Curtain supporting means comprising in combination a curtain having ahem along its upper edge, there being apertures through one face of saidhem; clips each having an upwardly directed arm extending through anassociated aperture and housed within said hem and adapted to supportsaid hem in an upright position, each clip, also having an intermediateportion engaging the said apertured portion of the curtain to supportsaid curtain thereon; and supporting means wh-ereon each clip ismounted.

2. Curtain supporting means comprising in combination a bar; a clipconsisting of an elongated strip of material bent into the general shapeof a vertically compressed letter 3, said supporting bar being includedwithin one loop of said clip and maintaining the terminal arm of theother loop of the clip in an upstanding position, and a curtain having aloop marginal portion which is adapted to be supported both by theterminal portion of the last recited loop of the clip and by the bentportion thereof.

3. Curtain supporting means comprising in combination a bar having awidth considerably greater than its thickness; and a clip consisting ofa rod bent into the general shape of a vertically compressed letter S,the loop thus formed at one side of the midlength of said rod extendingaround said rail, said loop terminating in a finger which preventslateral displacement of said clip from said rail, the other end portionof said rod being adapted to support a curtain.

4. Curtain supporting means comprising in combination a barhaving awidth considerably greater than its thickness; a clip consisting of arod bent into the general shape of a vertically compressed letter S, theloop thus formed at one side of the mid-length of said rod extendingaround said rail; said loop terminating in a finger which preventslateral displacement of said clip from said rail, the other end portionof said rod being adapted to support a curtain; and a roller mountedupon the middle portion of said clip and 0 adapted to travel upon saidbar.

5. A curtain hanger clip comprising bent portions of wire, one of whichportions is adapted to support a curtain and the other of which portionsis adapted to retain said hanger clip in place upon a bar; and a rolleradapted to travel upon the bar, the wire forming a bearing shaft forsaid roller, said wire havin a projection at each side of said roller toprevent relative sidewise movement of said roller on said wire.

6. Curtain hanging means comprising in combination, a single wire bentinto a clip having a central run and an open-ended loop at each side ofsaid run; a bar of greater height than width mounted in an edgewiseposition over which one of said loopsis placed support. a curtain.

7. In curtain supporting means, the com- :binationot a rectangularsupporting bar and a curtain engaging clipcomprising a rectan--gular'ssupptortingloop adapted to overlie the tour sides of said barand substantially encircle,- the. same, and a curtain supporting loopextending away from one corner of said first mentioned rectangularsupporting loop and adapted to support a curtain thereon.

8. The combination of a curtain having a hem provided on one side withapertures; a

supporting bar; and a clip slidrably mounted on said bar and having anupstanding finger detach-ably received in said aperture and hem andadapted to support said curtain so that said bar and clip will beconcealed on one side of said curtain supported thereon.

9. In curtain supporting means, a clip made of a single strip of wirebent into a substantially vertically compressed S-shape to form a barengaging loop and a curtain supporting loop, said bar engaging loophaving its free end extended toward said curtain supporting loop toprovide means to retain said clip on a supporting bar.

10. In curtain supporting means, a clip made of a single strip of Wirebent into a substantially vertically compressed S-shape to form a barengaging loop and a curtain supporting loop, said bar engaging loophaving its free end extended toward said curtain supporting loop toprovide means to retain said clip on a supporting bar; and a rollermounted on said bar engaging loop.

11. In curtain supporting means, a clip made of a single strip of wirebent into a substantially vertically compressed S-shape to form a barengaging loop and a curtain supporting loop, said bar engaging loophaving its free end extended toward said curtain supporting loop toprovide means to retain said clip on a supporting bar; a roller mounted011 said bar engaging loop; and means on said wire to prevent relativelateral movement of said roller on said Wire clip.

12. In curtain supporting means, a clip made of a single strip of Wirebent into a substantially vertically compressed S-shape to form a barengaging loop and a curtain supporting loop, said bar engaging loophaving its free end extended toward said curtain supporting loop toprovide means to retain said clip on a supporting bar; said bar engagingloop and retaining means forming a substantial rectangular shapedmember.

13. In curtain supporting means, the combination of a curtain having onone side a iii) series of apertures; a rectangular supporting bar; aclip having a loop extending over said bar and slidable therealong anddetachable therefrom; and a curtain engaging finger extending upwardlyand away from said loop and supporting bar and adapted to be detachablyreceived in said apertures and maintain one edge of said curtain at aheight above said bar and clip.

14:. In curtain supporting means, a clip comprising a wire bent to forma middle run and a bar supporting loop extending from one end of saidmiddle run and a curtain supporting loop extending from the other end ofsaid middle run, said loops opening at opposite ends of said middle run,the free end of said bar supporting loop extending toward said curtainsupporting loop; and a roller mounted on said bar supporting loop andadapted to rotatably engage a supporting bar.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at New York, N. Y.,this 9th day of June, 1930.

FRED L. MENELEY.

